Full DescriptionAfrican American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship |
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| Title: | African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship |
| Alternate Title: | Quest for Full Citizenship |
| URL: |
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html 
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| Description: |
The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship showcases the Library's incomparable African American collections. Displaying more than 240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings. The exhibit includes depictions of the long journey following the Civil War towards equality in employment, education and politics, strategies used to secure the vote, recognition of outstanding black leaders, and the contributions of sports figures, black soldiers, artists, actors, writers and others in the fight against segregation and discrimination Features the exhibition of the Library of Congress entitled "The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship" located in Washington D.C. Presents a chronology of the African American experience including slavery, the work of abolitionists in the first half of the nineteenth century, and the civil rights era. |
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| Subjects: |
African Americans--History--Exhibitions. Abolitionists--19th century. Slavery. Civil rights movements. |
| DLF-specific Subjects: | American Culture |
| Geographic Coverage: | North America (continent) |
| Objects Represented: | Photographs / slides / negatives |
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image/jpeg image/tiff |
| Interaction with Collection: | Exhibit |
| Frequency of additions: | Irregularly |
| Notes: |
Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Began in 1998? |
| This Record Last Updated By: | khage@umich.edu |
| This Record Last Updated On: | 10/13/2007 10:31:12 PM |
| Hosting Institution: | Library of Congress |
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| Notes: | Holdings of the Library of Congress |
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